The United States and Canada will discuss in the next two days the composition of an international force for Haiti in response to the serious humanitarian crisis that the Caribbean country is going through, we learned on Wednesday in Washington (26.10.2022 ).

Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who will visit Canada on Thursday and Friday, will discuss the issue with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his counterpart Melanie Joly, said the head of Latin America at the US Department of Foreign Affairs, Brian Nichols, during a phone call. with journalists.

Nichols, assistant secretary for Western Hemisphere affairs, said he was confident the UN Security Council would pass a resolution authorizing the formation of the international force in early November.

On his first official visit to Canada, Blinken will meet Trudeau and Joly in Ottawa on Thursday. On Friday, he will travel with the Canadian minister to Montreal, where most of the Haitian community resides in this country.

On the other hand, the chiefs of staff of the United States, General Mark Milley, and of Canada, General Wayne Eyre, spoke by telephone about the situation in Haiti and the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Last Friday, the UN Security Council unanimously passed a resolution imposing sanctions and an arms embargo on gangs that control large areas of Haiti and block the supply of fuel and other basic goods. in Port-au-Prince.

So far, opposition from Russia and China has prevented the approval of a resolution sponsored by the United States and Mexico to send an armed force to Haiti to restore security.

gs (efe, Haiti Gazette, Unnews)